How a woman born in rural Virginia built one of the world’s greatest African American research collections. Born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, Dorothy Porter Wesley would become one of the most influential figures in African American librarianship. As curator of Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, she transformed a modest collection into one of the [...]
Tag: American Exceptionalism
America’s Leadership and the Fight for Freedom at Home
1 In the years before World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt chose to position the United States as the leader of the “Free World.” At the time, two political paths stood in stark contrast: authoritarianism, which served the interests of a select few, and liberal democracy, which promised rights and opportunities to the many. This [...]
American Pulp Culture 